From the album "Cairn" (2024)
Featuring Pete Toigo on bass.

The Final Wager

Steer me in the right direction and I'll go
And I won't stop until I find
A bridge across the wind, passage through the rain
A workaround to buy us some more time

The final wager
We'll run the table
And love will win at last

Sort me out so I can be the kind of guy
That you would proudly call your own
The stupid things I do will not embarrass you
And you will never be alone

The final wager
We'll run the table
And love will win at last

Wind me up and I will walk the straightest line
A gauntlet of our enemies around
But just one look at me, they'll part like the red sea
And we will walk across the ground

The final wager
We'll run the table
And love will win at last

The Final Wager

44_ Retro Chili Peppers Playground - released on 24 March 2023 

Simply in-between Sessions No.1 #germanquality #like #redhotchilipeppers #alternative #guitar

(produced with Blocswave & Launchpad)

Retro Chili Peppers Playground

Mostly just me playing about, but there's a bit of Charlie Villiers' guitar in there too, notably giving the outro a little touch of class.

~Lyrics~
We were sitting in your back garden 
Clouds were drifting across the sky 
You turned to me and smiled
I think you had a tear in your eye
And then taking my hand you whispered,
“When I get this high,
I sometimes get the feeling I might be just about to die!”

Then with a shrug of your shoulders 
You told us about the butterflies
That there’s no way of them knowing
That their wings look like eyes
And if you consider the caterpillar
It’ll come as no surprise
Just how very little we all know about our lives

[Chorus]
Baby you kill me, all night long
Baby you’re killing it all night…

Later on that evening
the sun was streaming through the trees
You have to just surrender to life
At moments like these
We were kicking through the fallen leaves
In the pale winter sun
And though I tried to hide it, I always knew this day would come

I recall the very moment 
You didn’t even hesitate
It was written in the heavens
And written all over your face
But the storm is in the distance
The sky is a luminous pink
You can lead me like a horse to water…

[Chorus]
🎸 🤩

Baby You Kill Me

cigar box practice 
fingers then slide
recorded in Macclesfield Sunday 
hence the title .. (the birth of 'Riding my horse')
RJ Walker March 31st 2024

powdered mountains

macc sun

Ascension Symphony: An Orchestral Odyssey in 4 Movements.

The 1st movement "Path of Destiny" begins with marching melodies 
and proceeds with haunting harmonies, evoking the tangled paths and painful losses encountered along the way. 
With turbulent brass and strings and mournful melodies, 
the music navigates through the labyrinth of adversity, 
while the dreamy motifs symbolize the eternal hope that guides the traveler through the darkest of times.

For listening to the other 3 movements, refer to the related album of the "Ascension Symphony".

Ascension Symphony - 1. Movement: Path of Destiny

a work in progress!
This song is 80% drama and 20% piano

Lyrics/vocals: Annie Stone
Piano: Russ Stone

Come Home (Demo)

Nothing’s ever easy now

Rush

File Updated: Two acoustic guitars added (feeler runs so there's mistakes🤸‍♀️Program that AI🖕).... One mostly single string lead and the other a picked rhythm. Extended the progression for a dancey end... Note-The idea of a 23 second phrase is born from my boss pedal maxing out at 22990ms... so that was the longest possible loop I could do with it. To do that essily I needed to work out the bpm to fill that 23 seconds. This was the original 23 therapy..https://soundcloud.com/thebeautifuldark/23-therapy Ot's a mostly acoustic electronic tune.
An interesting coincidence here... The bpm used is 167 (83.49bpm x 2 rounded off) and the original has 167 plays as of now.... Schweeeet
So in fact that rounding makes our duration a little less so we are a tad shy of 23 seconds...

For me its absolutley worth learning the relationship of time duration and bpm well. Music at the end of the day is maths so I do like being conscious of the time and symmetry technically as well as just feeling it... It's interesting and maybe gives you a different understanding and hopefully more original music from that...

This song began with sums... I wanted the phrase to be 23 seconds long. Do the maths and thats 83.49 bpm or 2875ms per bar. My DAW don't like bpm decimals so I used a string scratch looped on a delay pedal with 2875ms delay to find that 23 second phrase and then move on to make the idea... If all else... it's a different way to start a song

As a writing constraint and extra nugget I wrote Twenty Three Therapy down the side of he page first and used it to build the lines...


Lyrics 

Termed
We're sent a number
Ever MJ world in the head of this brother
New escapes we've learned
Twinned with hidden forte
You can choose not to learn the hard way

Too, I'd quite like to pick your mind
Hear all that's ahead
Real prescient sign
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23 Therapy (String Scratched)

Song composed and edited in May 2.020.

Music Studio, with native instruments, Kv331 Synthmaster player and One.

Beyond the heaven

Original Lyrics by Tony Harris (listed below)
Vocals, Melody and music by Chuck Aaron

YOU MAY THINK THAT I'M FOOLISH
FOR WANTIN' MY OWN SPACE
AND IT MAY SEEM CHILDISH
TO THE FEMALE RACE

DON'T PUT ME DOWN
FOR WANTIN' MY OWN PLACE
DON'T MAKE IT A SHOWDOWN
HONEY, IT'S NO DISGRACE

(CHORUS)
EVERY MAN NEEDS A MAN CAVE
A PLACE TO GET AWAY
EVERY MAN NEEDS A MAN CAVE
A HOME AWAY FROM HOME
EVERY MAN NEEDS A MAN CAVE
AND SOME TIME ALONE
EVERY MAN NEEDS A MAN CAVE
A PLACE TO GET AWAY

IT MAY BE A BASEMENT
OR A MAKE SHIFT STUDIO 
IF IT'S A PLACE OF ENJOYMENT
THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS

WHEN LIFE GETS IN THE WAY
IN THIS OLD WORLD WE LIVE IN
WE NEED A SPECIAL PLACE
AND SOME OF GOD'S AMAZING GRACE

(REPEAT CHORUS 1 OR 2 TIMES)

2021 © Lyrics by Tony Harris (BMI)

Every Man Needs A Man Cave - Original collab with Chuck Aaron

I enjoy writing Country, Folk, Rock, Blues and Gospel lyrics about real life and collaborating with other people. I also upload some cover songs from time to time. My other SC site is Country/Folk/Rock/Blues/Gospel - Repost. https://soundcloud.com/countryrock67

Many thanks to the people listed below for collaborating with me.
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MIKE FOX
LIZZIE TAYPEN
CHUCK AARON
GLEN GRANTHEM
PJ PROJECTS
DLYNN
SOUTHERN FRIED TIED
RIFF BEACH (Hess)
RORY TOSH (Textosh)
JOHNNY MINSTREL (Prav)
BOB WARNER (Guitar Picker)
ROGER MOORE (RIP)
JAIME J. ROSS
SUNNIDAYZ (Sandy)
EDDIE HARRISON (EddieSongWriter)
BOB MOORE (Bobby T. Moore)
SHOEMANSKY
GEORGE WARD (Jungle DOG)
BOB PICKENS
PAT ERIKSSON
ALLEN G. BAILEY (RIP)
PHILLIP CLARKSON
ALAN FRANKLIN
SPEERS
ANDRE BELLWOOD
DAVID WALKER
PARMOUNT SOUND
JUDY MILLER
SHEILA WEAVER (hymnpianist)
TOM ADAMS
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SoundCloud is a great place to listen and enjoy all types of music from all over the world. The talent on soundcloud is amazing.

God Bless,
Tony

Every Man Needs A Man Cave - Original collab with Chuck Aaron

Tony's Lyrics